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He has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish
where He will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry
for ever and ever ’till the end of time… but He loves you!
George Carlin — 1937 ~ 2008
Welcome to the home page of Colin Helvensteijn, aka raptor.
So what can you find here on this web site? Well, the menu above points you to most of it. My blog — of which the latest posts are below — is probably the most interesting part of this site for most people. Not in the menu, but present nonetheless, is some stuff that I want to have online for some reason. And that basically covers it. 
Monday, October 6th, 2008
I spent the last few hours copying everything from the old server to my new virtual machine. And a few minutes ago, I updated the DNS entry for the helvensteijn.com domain. It’ll take some time for the change to propagate across the internet, but soon, everybody should have this web site served by my new [...]
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Just two days ago, I received my new iMac. And this night, my new virtual machine went online. It will be running this web site in the near not-too-distant future.
Right now, this site sits quite comfortably on a shared hosting account. However, shared hosting has its limits, and with a virtual machine (a so-called Virtual [...]
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Today, I received my new 24" Apple iMac. I opted for the 2.8 GHz model, with 2 GiB of memory and a 500 GB hard drive. The full specs can be found here. Oh, and I chose the Bluetooth keyboard, because I already have the corded vesion. As usual, here’s a picture of the [...]
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